St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-11
One Blind Pig Has Been
Brought to L ght and
Taken Away.
Some of the Herds of Fancy
Cattle That Are Now in
the Sheds.
The States Dairy Interests
Well Representation
the Veterans.
Doors Will Be Closed To-Day
THE Breeders Stake
Races.

The turnStiles at the state fair grounds
were not kept very busy yesterday,
though between morning and night
about 1000 people passed through them.
1t was the second day of the great show.
The morning sun never shown more
brightly. and hardly had the dew been
dried off those parts of the grounds
where there is anything left to catch
dew, before there was movement all
through the buildings and about the
streets of active preparation. When it
is said that the day was largely one of
preparation, in spite of the fact that it
was the second regular day of the
fair, any one who has ever been at
the state fair on such a day
knows about all that he needs to know
of how the time was spent, Even when
the last trains left for the two cities last
night there was still much to be done.
That this is true, the management says,
is due TO the Unborn
TENDENCY OF MANKIND
to put off to the last minute things of
this nature and to the rain of last week.
Many of the large exhibits, especially of
live stock, have been on exhibition at
the Iowa state fair, and cannot be re-
moved from the grounds at DeS MOineS
in season to reach the Minnesota
grounds before to-day. The rain of
the two or three days pre-
ceeding the opening one also
had a tendency to hinder much of the
work that must, from its nature. be
done out of doors. But with the large
force of men employed by the manage
ment, and by the private concerns that
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the great show practically in readiness
TO be looked at. and few comparatively
will be compelled to break the fourth
commandment to-day in order that the
twenty-ninth annual fair of this state
may bloom out, full grown, when the
morning comes tomorrow and the turn
stiles begin to swing again.
The man or the newspaper that says
this fair does not in the quality and
quantity of its exhibits, in the style of
that exhibition and the comprehensive
ness of the scheme whereby all the in
terests of Minnesota are displayed, lay
over any and all the fairs that were ever
held in this state before, does not secure
his information on that point, from any
one of the managers. Their words on
this point lead one to suppose that this
is the largest genuine fair ever held and
''all others
BASE INVITATIONS"
There certainly is no reason in sight
to dispute this claim. The management
said last night that they were satisfied
with the showing at the end of the sec
Ond day, and there was not one of those
who looked over the little city, which is
for convenience called the fair grounds
just now, who could have found much
if anything to rob them of one jOt of
this satisfaction.
To enumerate a list of the ex-
hibitorS in all, or any Of
the departments, can give no
one much of an idea of what is to be
seen at the fair. The exhibitors are
numbered by thousands, who have
selected from the best they severally
have that which shall represent them
there. Live stock barns are well filled,
though not crowded yet. The products
of the soil from all over the Northwest
are represented in profusion. All the
machinery that human brains have in
vented, which cuts a figure in the North
western civilization, is there. A temple
and the sculptor, and along
broad aisles, and in a thousand
corners are spread out all that the ge-
MUS of man has learned to make for
comfort, use or beauty. The animal
creation is there in herds and flOckS and
SwarmS. The hundred buildings on the
grounds are filled. and if the sun con-
SCENTS to shine tomorrow morn, the
management, with one big sigh of salts
fed thanksgiving, will say to all the
world a word of welcome, and no one
will regret it who passes through the
gates.